Nine to Five

Yea Yea Nine to Five Working that Nine to Five We good Look My adrenaline, flowing from the start Step to this mic you can see all of my battle scars Life's a journey, and sadly we torn apart I'll be at rest, knowing damn well I showed some heart And from the start, I didn't met the quota And cops kill us so quickly, we can't get a notice Or recognition for the actions that my brothers taken We just get blasted, y'all expecting us to act so patient Shit ain't changing for the good, so I keep on preaching My mental relapse on life, make me feel like I'm dreaming 'Cause in this world of evil and hate, I keep on breathing And spitting knowledge in these verses till I feel we even Until then You'll probably hate me, but I keep repeating A young clone of Malcolm X when I start peaking And if I die before 25, you know the reason They hate it when a young black man changing like seasons Every goal reached was an mental battle beaten He always catched his dreams, well metaphorically speaking They wanna see me fail, nigga I prevail when reaching And help my city out the struggle, with no signs of weakness It's our time to be on our grind and start wreaking Havoc on all y'all people that's feeling undefeated The shine in my city was way past due Now I'm planted in the middle of it like statues I blast through, excuse me Usually I follow certain goals But lately I've been on a tangent when I start to flow With this pen, I'm either hitting rock bottom or gold Only I can make that choice and no I don't plan to fold No, you got me fucked in many different ways There's been too many days where I lived my life the same Now it's time to change, and make a name for myself And surround my whole family with generational wealth, nigga Yea Change, right before your eyes It ain't no surprise, man I been on my grind Continue spitting knowledge like it was my Nine to Five My Nine to Five Yea, nigga Change, right before your eyes It ain't no surprise, man I been on my grind Continue spitting knowledge like it was my Nine to Five My Nine to Five Include the overtime Deep in thought, I stay searching I'm putting all this music out, hopefully it'll be worth it Before they close the curtain, and my casket get hit with dirt and debris I believe that I changed some life's for certain Influenced a couple people to really start working towards they dream No matter how far fetched it might seem If you don't get off the bench, then how the f*ck you gonna make the team Real shit Trying to be a legend inside of my city, Will Smith And inside my area code, I'm as fresh as a prince get On some Prince shit, don't repent this You gotta give credit, when credit due like arcades Hence this Ain't the last time you gonna hear of my name Nine to Five, till I see them bright lights on stage Nine to Five, till my family don't got bills to pay Nine to Five, just tryna to survive and maintain Take it one step at a time, slowly you'll change nigga Yea Slowly you'll change Take it one step at a time, slowly you'll change Damn We just tryna to see change Yea Change, right before your eyes It ain't no surprise, man I been on my grind Continue spitting knowledge like it was my Nine to Five My Nine to Five Yea, nigga Change, right before your eyes It ain't no surprise, man I been on my grind Continue spitting knowledge like it was my Nine to Five My Nine to Five